Meredith Stratton is forty-four and a successful businesswoman. The owner of six elegant international inns, she is about to celebrate her only daughter's engagement. At this seemingly happy time in her life, Meredith begins to suffer from a strange illness that baffles everyone. Her doctor cannot find a cause for her debilitating symptoms, and, desperate for answers, she seeks the help of a…
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • From the bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes an “extraordinary … first rate” novel ( The New York Times Book Review ) that follows the lives of two very different British men and explores the grand tapestry of late-Victorian Britain. As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinbu…
Lord Ombra, sosok misterius mengerikan pencuri bayangan, membuat gempar seluruh awak kapal. Dia memaksa kelasi kapal mengikuti semua perintahnya untuk mencari Serbuk Bintang, materi pengganda kekuatan. Mereka bergerak menuju London ke kediaman Molly yang dikabarkan menyimpan serbuk ajaib itu. Peter Pan bersama Tinker Bell berusaha menghentikan langkah Lord Ombra. Jika tidak, nyawa Molly dan …
Renée is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels, with society's expectations of what a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Renée passionate about culture and the arts, and more k…
The year is 1901--it's been twenty-three years since Peter and the Lost Boys returned from Rundoon. Since then, nobody on the island has grown a day older, and the Lost Boys continue their friendship with the Mollusk tribe, and their rivalry with Captain Hook. Meanwhile in London, Molly has married George Darling and is raising three Wendy, Michael, and John. One night a visitor appears at her …
Banyak yang tidak tahu kisah di balik perjalanan Alaia dan Aluna. Mereka pernah menjadi korban bullying dan body shaming, tapi itu tidak membuat mereka menyerah. Dengan kekuatan dan keteguhan hati, mereka bangkit dan menghadapi semuanya. Buku ini mengungkap rahasia dan perjalanan mereka yang belum pernah diceritakan ke publik. Yuk, intip diari mereka dan temukan inspirasi dari kisah Alaia dan A…
Mummy Fairy and Me adalah volume 1 dari novel berseri Mummy Fairy and Me. Novel anak yang ditulis Sophie Kinsella ini menceritakan tentang ajaibnya kehidupan sehari-hari keluarga Ella dan mamanya yang seorang peri. Mama Peri bisa menjalankan mantra ajaib dengan tongkat digistik: membuat cupcake lezat dan merancang pesta minum teh yang sempurna, tapi juga bisa menyebabkan kekacauan besar di supe…
The three plays translated in this volume, Time Bomb, Cockroach Opera, and Julini's Opera, share the same setting and cast of characters. Through their songs, colloquial language, and raunchy humor, they illustrate a blending of the energy of indigenous folk expression and the style of a Western musical. The mixture creates a kaleidoscopic presentation likely to appeal to sophisticated urban au…
The six plays in this collection by Ikranagara (1943-2023) were written and performed by his theater Teater Senja between 1975 and 1997 during INdonesia's New Orde Era (1966 -1998) when freedom of speech was severely curtailed under the autocratic rule of President Soekarno. The New Order regime was plugued by corruption, collusion, and nepotism with widespread allegations of goverment official…
Sulastri and Sudarmo, the protagonists of Suwarsih Djojopuspito’ novel, Against the Grain, faced the inevitability of such events as teachers in one of the unauthorized (“wild”) schools of 1930’s Java. This strongly autobiographical work depicts the lives of Indonesians, particularly its youth, who were imbued with the ideals of nationalism and independence in the 1930s. But the depicti…